[EVO 4G General] NxNW:
With the understanding that RC2 will be superseded by RLS1 very very shortly, I thought I would share my godmode "upgrade" experience from yesterday anyway:

For me, the elapsed time between booting into Amon Ra and finally getting a booted OS (let's define that as the earliest you can pull up the lock ring and get to a homsecreen, even if it is very laggy still) :

20 minutes grand total.

The total time before I could launch an app or actually use the phone in a meaningful way was more like 30 minutes.

Total time before the pain of initial lagginess no longer called attention to itself (ie, you could use the phone without the thought of "damn this is slow" intruding in your mind) : hours.

The long delays during the install process happen at times that are different from what I expected

Flashing the actual zip while in Amon Ra:

8 minutes total. Progress bar seems to hang on around the 50% mark (right under the "u" in Virus") for at least half the time, then the bar fills in to 100% suddenly, then a long wait at 100%, then back to the interactive Amon Ra interface.

At this point Rosie 3.0 carousel "non-landscape" people such as myself flash the appropriate mod ( I did the one with Rosie 3.0 widgets). Very brief ( a few seconds to navigate to your zip, a few seconds to flash).

What happens after you select "Reboot now" in Amon Ra?

First, the "white screen with black 'htc EVO 4G' text" (Note this is different from the "white screen with green 'htc' logo" you get later (and indeed any time Sense reloads, whether due to crashes, first boot, reloading after titanium activity etc)).

This lasted only 3 minutes.

Then the glowing green "SYNEAGY AOM" ( <-- not a typo, look carefully at boot animation ;> ) throbbing-synapse-loop boot animation.

This lasted 9 minutes. Sometimes the synapses throbbed very slowly.

Then finally a brief glimpse of lock ring on top of wallpaper. No shortcut icons visible. If you don't touch phone, the screen promptly goes to sleep. Which is fine. It could probably use a little quiet time at this point.

(If you just touch the power button but don't actually mess with lock ring it's amusing to watch what time it is. First it will be something like UTC time, totally off from your local time unless you're actually in England. Then a while later it will spontaneously change to local time, except in 24-hour format (eg 21:57) . Then finally it will revert to 12-hour format (eg 9:57). Takes several minutes.)

Finally I unlocked it and the first thing I was greeted with was a modal dialog saying "Process com.android.phone is not responding...Force Close / Wait". I chose wait and immediately was shown the "white screen with green 'htc' logo" for a good five minutes of totally non-interactive wait time.

I left the phone alone during this time and eventually it finished doing what it was doing and it fell back asleep. When I woke it up, I was placed directly in the Setup Wizard app. Interestingly, the first screen of the setup wizard has a 'back' button. Not feeling like signing in to anything just yet I hit 'back'. Again came the "white screen with green 'htc' logo", then a desktop with a dialog just saying "Loading" for yet another minute.

At last a real homsecreen appears (now with the familiar constellation of six icons, and, again, no clock/weather widget), the tips widget throws up a balloon with its first tip, and finally you can actually use the phone.

This would be around the 30 minute point since the flashing process started.

There are times during this initial break-in stage where it seems the phone is almost unresponsive. Touches may *begin* to get responded to after a five second lag or more. The response itself can take 5 seconds more to do something simple like simply redrawing a button with its highlight color after a button press, let alone performing the requested action.

That phone / wait dialog comes up a lot. For instance I just saw it again today when someone actually called me. I chose wait and then answered the call normally.)

Ominously, I also saw a dialog later concerning "android.process.media" which concerns me because the point of god mode is to change the way the filesystem works for basic I/O functions.

Still haven't ever signed in to my main google account yet. Seeing how far I can take this before I do. I suspect as soon as I sign in it will start downloading all my apps from the Market. Which force closed on me by the way when I was doing something totally unrelated (just poking around Spare Parts I believe it was).

Also the first time I tried all this the internet browser app simply did not work right out of the box. Force closed every time. (I restored app+data for just the browser app from my titanium backup I made (while running RC2 non god mode) prior to the install and got my browser back. That didn't give me warm and fuzzy feelings.)

Later I repeated the entire install procedure from scratch and did not experience market FC's or internet browser FC's. Not sure why the second time would be different.

Note I was not connected to AC power during any flashing or initial boot up.

For those playing along at home, you may be curious to know things like what kind of phone do I have, how did I prepare to flash, and what was the exact sequence of steps during wiping / flashing?

OG Evo HW 004, original SD card ( I believe that means 8 GB class 2), never toyed with any kind of partitioning. Previous ROMS have all worked fine with the SD card which has the usual folders full of pictures, nandroids, titanium, folders created by previous ROMs including Synergy, etc.

Latest radios, PRI, PRL, GPS works, 4G keys happy, never had any drama.

Before flashing God Mode I was already running Synergy RC2, and once I was ready to say good bye, I did a nandroid backup, then rebooted, connected to a PC and offloaded any new camera pictures, some recent nandroids and uploaded the ROM image ( I did check the md5) and the Rosie mod I intended to use (dkdude, not fdb) . Then ran titanium, backing up all user plus system apps, then finally did one last quadrant test (just under 1000), took a deep breath, and rebooted into Amon Ra 2.3 .

From there I did these wipes in this order:

rotation

battery

dalvik

cache

data

factory reset

Yes I realize many of these are redundant. Then, to be *really* redundant, I left wipe mode and went into flash zip mode and flashed calkulins format all tool. I believe this also wipes boot amongst other things.

So now at this stage the phone is fairly re-virginized. The only thing I haven't touched is the SD card which has the zips I want to flash.

Now I flash the actual synergy RC2 god mode zip (as described at the very top), then the rosie mod, getting no errors for either one, and then without further ado selected reboot now, which brings us back to the firstboot behavior chronicled above.

Edit: I did restore quadrant and got 1600 on my first run: make of that what you will.